Your random Amazing Race-Survivor thought of the day

Completely out of the blue today, my brain hit upon this thought:

One of these days, CBS must tape seasons of Survivor and The Amazing Race simultaneously. About half-way through the tapings, the Amazing Race teams all end up routed to Survivor Island. The twist in the show is that the last team to the pit stop for that leg of the race doesn't get booted from the show, but changes shows and is now on Survivor, split up and on separate tribes.

At the same time, both Survivor teams separately go to tribal council. The voted off members, however, don't go home - they are told that they have to team up and go on the rest of The Amazing Race.

It would be the ultimate twist in both games, would briefly intersect two hit TV shows, and provide at least two episodes of television (one for each show) that would be absolutely must-watch TV, particularly if CBS could pull this off spoiler-free and ensure that no one knows about it before the episodes air.

CBS can have this idea entirely for free.

TLC: Yup, we screwed up!

And while I'm in the mood ...

Miss America is on TLC this year.

TLC is home to Trading Spaces.

TLC has been running commercials saying that Paige Davis is coming back to Trading Spaces when the new season starts tonight.

The commercials, in so many words, say: "Remember Trading Spaces? Remember you used to watch it every week? Remember when Trading Spaces got rid of Paige Davis you and everyone else stopped watching it? Yeah, well, we're sorry we ever got rid of Paige. And she's back now! So please watch Trading Spaces again. Please? Pretty please?"

The mind boggles ...

OK, so I'm watching Miss America (it's a long story, don't ask ... ) and this year, they've "modernized" the pageant, including allowing members of the public ask questions of the finalists.

So this one person asks, "What does it say about this country when someone like Paris Hilton can become famous despite not accomplishing anything?"

Famous without accomplishing anything? Oh, you mean like MISS AMERICA!?

Invasion of the Peruvian Missionaries!

In a few hours, my family will be playing host to a couple of old friends - Brad and Lori Quiring, who are missionaries in Peru - and their kids, not to mention a Peruvian girl who they brought to Canada to show her the country.

This means there will be 10 of us staying in our house for the next 10 days.

Any TV producers who would like to shoot a reality show during the next week should contact me immediately.